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FlightGear GCS Interpreter

An Ground Control Stations interpreter for the FlightGear simulator.
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Design And Architecture
2. Installation
3. Usage
4. Flowchart
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Contact
8. See also

About The Project

This project is a Ground Control Stations interpreter for the FlightGear simulator. The commands to control the drone are given in a text file, the interpeter reads and executes the commands. The task is to make the drone take off and stable itself in the air automatically.

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Design And Architecture

The Design and Architecture of the project are as follows:

• Object-oriented programming

• Command Pattern

• Date access with O(1) time complexity

• Threading

• Singelton

• Polymorphism

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Installation

• Clone the repo from https://github.com/RosenbergYehuda/FlightGear-GCS-Interpeter.git.
• Download the simulator from FlightGear.org.
• Copy the generic_small file from the repository and paste it in the protocol folder at the location of the FlightGear files on your system. for example: /usr/share/games/flightgear/Protocol.

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Usage

• Open your terminal and navigate to the cloned repository. then run make
• run ./output
• Lean back and chill while the drone will take off and stable itself in the air automatically.

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Flowchart

graph TD;
    A[text file] --> B{Lexer};
    B --> C[CommandMap];
    B --> D[SymbolPathMap];
    C --> E[Command];
    E --> F[client];
    E --> G[Server];
    H[Drone] --> G;
    G --> I[(PathValueMap)];
    F --> H;
    

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Contributing

Yehuda Z Rosenberg

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License

The code is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

The Logo is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See for more information.

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Contact

Yehuda Rosenberg

yehudazevr@gmail.com

Project Link: https://github.com/RosenbergYehuda/FlightGear-GCS-Interpeter

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See also

https://wiki.flightgear.org/Main_Page

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flightgear

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